Our main communication channel for parents is Class Dojo. Our staff post photos and information reguarly to keep you fully updated on things happening within each year group. If you have not yet signed up to Class Dojo, please contact the school office.
For anyone who missed it, I will be running two coffee mornings where we will be discussing our schools approach to developing relationships and promoting positive behaviour. Everyone is welcome!
Dates- Tuesday 5th and Monday 11th December
Time - 9.10am
Location - tbc based on numbers
Please send me a Dojo to book on.
Miss McGing
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CHRISTMAS ANNOUNCEMENT
Following discussions at last weeks PA meeting, and further discussion with the headteacher, the PA will be funding Christmas activities for ALL our mosspits children this year.
These will take place during the school day, at no cost to families, on Friday 8th December.
Reception, Y1 and Y2
Craft morning
KS2 - y3-6
Movie afternoon
With a special guest appearance 🎅🏻 and a small token gift for every child 🎁
We will require volunteers, to help share the responsibility with the teaching staff. Once further planning is underway, we’ll share a roles list and times needed. Ideally representation from all year groups would be best.
Thanks in advance for your support in making a fun festive day for the children!
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2022 marks the 26th anniversary of World Book Day. The message this year for children is ‘you are a reader!’
We are going to use this day to promote reading for pleasure and children will take part in a range of activities for World Book Day.
On this day, we are inviting children and staff to come to school dressed as a book character or in their own clothes for a suggested £1 donation. Money raised will be used to purchase new books for our children to read.
We are going to take part in a whole school ‘Drop Everything and Read’ session and we are asking the children to bring in their favourite book to read for this. It will be a great opportunity for our pupils to share the books they love to read and inspire their friends to maybe try a new book or author.
Before school, we will be setting up tables on the yard for an adult book swap. This will send out a positive message that everyone in our community reads. If you would like to participate, please bring a book to swap for another.
Children will also bring home their World Book Day token. This token can either be used for one of the £1 World Book Day books or to get a £1 off any full priced book instead. The token is valid from Thursday 16th February to Sunday 26th March 2023.
Thanks for your support.
WORLD BOOK DAY SWAP SHOP!
This year we will be holding a 'World Book Day Costume Swap Shop', fitting in perfectly with our school value, to be 'eco-friendly'.
Do you have a costume that you no longer need and are willing to give to our Swap Shop? Any donations would be gratefully received. Please hand donations to your child's class teacher or to the school office from tomorrow morning up until Monday 27th in the morning.
The swap shop will be open on Monday 27th from 3:20pm until 3:40pm in the Victoria Room. This room is accessible, and will be signposted, from the Playground. Please come and grab a 'swap' or simply pick up a costume if you are after a new one.
Thank you, in advance, to our wonderful School Council who will be supporting the running of this.
Walk to School Initiative Event.
This year, Mosspits Lane has signed up to Living Streets Walk to School Initiative. We are participating in a
walk to school event on Friday 24th February 2023 with Living Streets, Paula Barker MP and the mascot for Living Streets, Strider will also be there to join us on our journey to school!
We plan to meet as a group at 8:00am and walk to Mosspits Lane Primary School.
Proposed timings:
8:00am Arrive at the meeting point Mystery Park Gates on Prince Alfred Road which is a short distance
from the school.
8:15am Start walking to Mosspits Lane Primary school.
8:35am Arrive at school.
8:45am Children will wait at the main gates to enter onto the school yard.
If you would like to attend, please message me via Class Dojo and I will arrange for a letter to be sent to you.
Miss V Brown
(PE Lead)
Extreme Read Mosspits
This half term, we are launching an exciting challenge to all our children. All we need is a photograph of your child or children reading in an unusual or interesting place. These photographs will form part of a whole school display and spread the message of Mosspits reads.
You can either tag us into your pictures via Twitter @mosspitslane using the #mosspitsreading hashtag or send images via classDojo.
Alternatively, printed photographs can be sent into school with your child or sent to Office@mosspits.com ensuring the subject of the email is entitled Extreme Read.
We can't wait to see all the unusual places our Mosspits community like to read in.
Week commencing February 6th, we will be celebrating Children's Mental Health week. The theme is 'Let's Connect'.
We have lots of activities planned, including assemblies on this theme across the school. As part of our Behaviour policy, we also have a daily routine of 'checking-in' with the children; this is sometimes done as whole class circle time. It's an opportunity to 'check in' with pupils and find out how they are feeling and how they are ready for the day. This week, the check-in theme will be around, 'connectedness'.
Each class will share the story, 'The Invisible String' by Patrice Karst. Karst tells us, 'You don't need to see the Invisible String. People who love each other are always connected by a very special string made of love.' Children will explore who they are connected to and how they feel about these people.
Pupils will also take part in a schoolwide art project. Bernie Hollywood OBE is currently solo rowing across the Atlantic to raise money and awareness for children's mental health. Children will create an image of what they think hope looks like. Every child who enters will have their work included in a special commemorative book of which a copy will be given to each Primary School. And the six overall winners will have their artwork displayed in the Anglican Cathedral for the Boat of Hope exhibition in May/June. The organisers want to fill the city with beacons of hope from the next generation.
Finally, classes will be taking part in different online mental health and wellbeing sessions run by the city's support team, by the LFC foundation and the Classroom Yoga Buns!
Keep checking class dojo for updates!
We are delighted to be supporting the NSPCC by taking part in their Number Day on Friday 3rd February.
Children deserve an equal start in life
The NSPCC believes that all children deserve a childhood free from harm but, sadly, that’s not the case for many children. That’s why the NSPCC is fighting for every childhood and working to help keep children safe from abuse.
The NSPCC needs our support. By raising money, we can help to fund their vital services such as Childline – the helpline that’s always there for children and young people whatever their problem or concern.
Making maths meaningful
Number Day is a great way to make maths fun and bring about a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude towards it.
On the day we will be taking part in Dress up for Digits and pupils will be invited to wear an item of clothing with some maths link to it e.g numbers, symmetry, shapes, patterns etc. To help raise money for the NSPCC, we are asking for a donation and we’d love everyone in the school to take part in this special event. The children will also be taking part in fun curriculum based maths challenges during the day.
As part of our commitment to make Maths exciting and high profile in our school, we are taking part in a friendly competition (years 2-6) online involving schools around the UK via TTRockstars.
For every correct answer to a multiplication or division question, your child will earn their class a point. The Times Tables Rock Stars platform will calculate the class average (the number of correct answers per pupil in the class who play during the competition hours). Winning classes in the school and in the competition as a whole will be the ones with the highest average.
All game modes (Gig, Garage, Studio, etc.) will count but only from games played between 7AM and 7PM on Friday the 7th of May.
In the spirit of the competition, please don’t play on their behalf but by all means encourage and support them to the extent that it doesn’t cause high stress levels or impact on family plans. We suggest a limit of half an hour a day outside school hours – some will play more, some will play less.
It all adds up
We’re looking forward to all the fun of Number Day, and we really appreciate your support. All the money we raise at Mosspits will make an enormous difference to children today and help change the lives of children tomorrow.
Many thanks,
Miss Lisney
You can find out more about the NSPCC’s work at nspcc.org.uk
To find out more about keeping children safe online, visit nspcc.org.uk/onlinesafety
Please see information about Blue Peter's new writing competition! Please let us know if you enter - we'd love to read your story.
Calling all budding authors...
Blue Peter has launched its latest competition - 'Amazing Authors' - the winning story will be brought to life and read by popstar and author Tom Fletcher as a CBeebies Bedtime Story!
All you'll need to do is come up a short story or poem with an amazing adventure for an equally as brilliant main character.
Your main character could be a human, animal or even something you've made up. Think about what your character is going to get up to and then put pen to paper...you could end up winning a once in a lifetime prize!
The winner will have their work turned into an actual book and an animation as well as having their story read by Tom Fletcher himself both on Blue Peter, CBeebies Bedtime Stories and a podcast on BBC Sounds.
The competition is open for entries from January 27th and closes at 5pm on March 8th 2023.